Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-26

Ups and Downs Of Fa&t Mem-HOw
Fate settles with Rascality-Ssarving
Rather than Work.

Rather than Work.
special Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR
NEW YORK, February 2a 1857.
SIX years ago last summer a slender gentleman.
exqulsately dressed, sat onShe veranda at Moons
ROAD mouse, overlooking the blue waters OF Sara
toga lake. He had light hair and tawny NOUS
tacne' regular features and blue eyes. He was
gracefu In manner and extremely reticent
While making inquiries OF an attendant about
FLOODED horse champing its bit beneath an outly-
ing shed. he saw the writer gazing at him.
his hand.
Il haven't seen YOU in eight years. he said,
as ne conducted me to his table ON the veranda
man with massive Frame dull eyes and
ousny hair and side whiskers sat at the table He
was William H. Vanderbilt was introduced in
fattering terms The young man next beckoned
waiter and said, snake that a dinner for three"
yea e W% Tsasas was Foster Dewey for
After few personal tnterchanges he resumed AN
unlnteresting conversation With Mr.. Vanderbilt
ABOUT Denver and Rio Grande ana other stocks
varied with comments on fast horses An appe-
thing dinner was served, including such delicacies
rs .o1s rresn from the water woodcock corn and
vintage It ought TO have been good dinner, for
me 6ili was nearly nifty dollars II was paid by
used to Moons outrageous charges and he sub
mitted without demur.
1Ist knew Nj: Dewey when he was clerk in
the city auditors department. He was a young
man OF few words, but extremely afYable and hos
pitaole He had nothing but his salary OF s, 600
made q very creditabe display until he became
TwRHDs CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARY.
Then he gave full sway 10 his love for horses
and, like many OF Tweeds proteges began to cut a
figure on the road. The Boss had unbounded con-
idence In him. He trusted him Implicitly. No
man knew TweedS private business as well as
Foster Dewey. He even knew it better than Tweed
himself. The private payroll partnerships IN
the republican end OF the political machine~aii
Were kept In his head and appeared at his fingers
ends like flash when wanted. He kept very little
the tablets OF his memory. lie had as close
mouth as Ed. Haggerty, the Janitor OF the court
mousse who was credited with destroying the
famed vouchers. On Tweeds downfall he is said
10 have transferred valuable property to Dewey
with the understanding that IT should be returned
as soon as the old man could work himself free
from his difficulties Members or Tweed's family
assert that Dewey proved recreant TO his trust and
retained possession OF the property despite all the
euorts OF the Boss TO regain IL. Certain IL Is that
lrom the day Tweed was arrested Dewey was a
gentleman OF leisure. He was unmarried and his
horses. ais love of horses threw him into the 40.
ciety OF Vanderbilt, who took q violent fancy To
him, and was credited with giving him many val
liable points In the stock market.
sl,2OO,OOO AT ONE HAUL
In one deal Dewey is said TO have made 81 200 OO0
nate. He was, however. carrying $4,000 shares OF
stock when he died, which required the enormous
margin OF $3.50, 900. He sold them at slight ad-
va an hour before his death It was wonder.
Iul nerve and Judgment Tor he knew very well
margin after his death.
elegant apartments on 5th avenue a week ago
He had been suffering from sciatic rheumatism for
some days. Ex.Alderman Joseph Monhemer APP
pears 10 nave been about his only visitor I'm his
mortal Illness Hall an hour before he died he
wrote his will In four lines, leaving fabulous for
tune 10 MS mother and three brothers. Monhei-
mer was with him when he died, and closed his
eyes. Only one OF his brothers was In the city,
and he did not hear OF Fosters death until some
hours afterward. The parasites who fattened on
Tweed in his day OF power, some OF whom have
posed as eminent reformers since the death OF the
Boss, breathe more freely to-day over the positive
sealing or Dewey's lips. He was the only living
man who knew their dealings with the Old CHIEF Of
Big Six.
A sad fate seems TO have overtaken all the poor
men who were made rich by the favor OF Tweed.
Tom Fields died In Canada a year ago, an exile,
and with very little OF the money he amassed
while In the ring. Andrew Garvey has lost his
wife, whom ne adored, and who induced him 10
turn lnfOrinef He Is sunk from sight, with hardly
an associate, despite his wealth. Dick Connolly
died in exile In Switzerland. Cofson, a pennless
reporter, who amassed millions, has disappeared
from public gaze, and is living the life OF hermit.
lngersOil, once the pet captain OF the Seventh
regiment, is living In retirement after serving his
e
latOr OF Hugo's "Les Miserables," who got nearly
s., 100000 through his association with Tweed
in the Transcript association, is droning life away
within sight OF the pyramids of Egypt. Thomas
Watson who held the key OF the situation In
the auditors ONCE, was accidentally killed
to the city under Tweed, went insane before his
death. VIM. Hennessy Cook, who raked nearly a
million out OF the Treasury, and who could hardly
city where A. Oakley Han is now making a preca-
rious living as barrtster: woodward, another OF
the county court house millionares, Is scratching
Killed In a quarrel over a noted woman. Sands,
who BETRAYED the Citizens Association In Tweed's
interest, Is now In jail at Bridgeport Conn. The
Old American club house is turned into a summer
hotel, and the king or the standard OIL company
sleeps In the baronial hall built by Tweed In Con-
Foster Dewey was hardly buried before Mary
Amelia, TWeeds tavorile daughter, died In New
years ago was the talk Of the city. The S wedding
gifts alone were valued at over $780, 600. Every
effort was made TO prevent the publication OF the
ever, skillfuly obtained by young Sotedo, a brill
liant newspaper reporter, who was afterwards
Killed IN an assault upon an editor IN washington
voted TO him, and his daughter Josephine had just
lert his side when he died in Ludlow street JAIN.
FIRST CHOICE OR NOTHING.
1t is often said that hundreds OF men walk the
streets OF New York seeking work and unable to
ind It. The most prominent employment broker
In town said the other night that this entirely
untrue
81 can give every man work, he said, 'though
1t may not be the kind he desires or Is fitted Tor
have dozens OF restaurants and hotels to supply
and there are always some vacancies. This morn
tngs papers announced the suicides OF three men
VINO became desperate because they could not get
work. II they had been willing To take the first
thing that came along they'd have been all right
No man need starve."
"HOw low do wages rum"
81 sent three men TO work as porters to-day for 81
q week, including luncheons. You stare or course
81 is nothing to US; but the who won't work for
that much and six square meals a week will have
to struggle in New York. No matter how small
the wages you can always get men to accept them
but you cannot always get a man who has held a
high position to accept lower one They Will
sometimes starve to death first mean this lit
terally. They will undergo the awful horrors OF
starvation before they will throw away their
other day the doctors told Dewey, the big Wall
street operator, that he had only few hours TO
live. He called for his brokers at once and ar
ranged for selling out his stock. Can you Imagine
q man thinking OF the stock market when on the
very verge OF death! Well, the same PRINCIPLES
apply to paupers. They starve to death at times
before they Will consent to compete with the
laboring man"
It reminded me OF quiet and respectful looking |
man who came up beside me night or two ago as |
stood waiting for car on upper Broadway
81 beg yer pawdtng, sir, he said, touching his |
hat and bowling slightly, dbut tn fact is I'm quite
"When did you land?"
1.-TWO weeks since, sir and I've not had decent |
night nor full meal since. I'm q gentleman's |
servant, you know, sir: but there seems 10 he no